Notes

Drinking a St. Bernardus Christmas Ale by Brouwerij St. Bernardus.

Meanwhile, the result, so far, can be found here: https://jan.boddez.net/listens. Would love to eventually add listen-of microformats, or cover art or some such thing.

Using block variations to create a custom taxonomy block, nice.

I’m with the commenters here: in both examples, !important affects only --color, exactly as written. Not at all surprising.

Spent an hour or two writing a (basic) WordPress plugin that consumes “audio scrobbles,” like those sent to Last.fm. So rather than (share my data with a third-party service and then) use their API to display a widget or whatever on my blog, my CMS itself is now the “audio scrobbling” endpoint.

Really good advice here, like, “Avoid relative URLs!” (Another thing SSG sites often get wrong.)

No mention of h-feed/microformats, though. 😟

That’s what punk represents to me—youthful energy[.]

People can say, “Oh you’re kind of doing a nostalgia trip.” But to me, it’s not nostalgia—it’s the inherent energy in the music that gets me up in the morning. You could never call that nostalgia. In fact, it’s my lifeblood[.]

[W]hen you ask people how they are doing, they’re upbeat. Yet they think “the economy” is bad.

Yeah, and follow your feeds! (I’m serious, there’s so many messed up feeds, due to WordPress plugins or whatever, or feeds that measure tens of megabytes because they contain all of a site’s posts and pages, ever—this one’s mostly SSG sites, somehow.)

Dug up my “old” Android tablet and my second-gen iPod Shuffle.

Trying to include location data for a change.

It’s funny ’cause it’s true.

Not everyone needs [their] own custom static site generator. In fact, most of those blogs can’t stop blogging about blogging instead of having something genuinely exciting to tell.

Trying to add tagging to https://fstop.cloud. Like, not JSON Feed or microformats tags, that bit already works, but user-added tags. Currently experimenting with https://yaireo.github.io/tagify/, still have to implement the back end. Also, UI/UX challenges!

Love this. A lot of bloggers tend to forget about their RSS subscribers.

Warning: this post contains mockups done in HTML and CSS which aren’t likely to work well in feed readers.

Have been told about the MiSTer FPGA before, by more “purist” arcade amateurs, so bookmarking this. (I’m an amateur amateur, with my half-finished, Taito-like MAME upright and non-working Space Invaders Pt. II cocktail cab.)